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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This is the fourth of seven planned volumes of Merton's private journal. Merton, who died in 1968, was a Trappist monk, peace activist and well-loved author of spiritual classics such as The Seven Storey Mountain. Neither mundane nor egotistical, these journal entries demonstrate Merton's characteristic humor and warmth. This journal reflects a time in Merton's life when he is trying to balance his popularity as an author and speaker with his vows of silence as a Trappist monk, his pacifism and his political beliefs with his submission to the authority of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Above all, Merton's intellectual curiosity about a number of matters?including international and Vatican politics, architecture and his personal relationships?marks this fascinating journal.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
This fifth of seven projected volumes of the journals of Thomas Merton (A Search for Solitude, LJ 5/1/96) covers a turbulent period in American history. At the same time, this was a period of radical change in the Catholic Church owing to the guidance of Pope John XXIII and the reforms that emerged from the Vatican Council. Merton, from the hermitage where he was living, comments on all that he sees going on in the world with astonishing insight and compassion. Throughout, the reader can't help but be greatly impressed with the depth of Merton's knowledge, the intensity of his day-to-day engagement with matters spiritual, temporal, and intellectual, and the urgency of his desire to reconcile all of the varied areas of his passionate involvement with his primary calling to contemplation and the solitary life. The book stands as a further testament to the power of this important thinker and spiritual master and reads well on its own, though most libraries will want to have the complete series. Highly recommended.?Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll., N.Y.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
See all Editorial Reviews
This is the fourth of seven planned volumes of Merton's private journal. Merton, who died in 1968, was a Trappist monk, peace activist and well-loved author of spiritual classics such as The Seven Storey Mountain. Neither mundane nor egotistical, these journal entries demonstrate Merton's characteristic humor and warmth. This journal reflects a time in Merton's life when he is trying to balance his popularity as an author and speaker with his vows of silence as a Trappist monk, his pacifism and his political beliefs with his submission to the authority of the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Above all, Merton's intellectual curiosity about a number of matters?including international and Vatican politics, architecture and his personal relationships?marks this fascinating journal.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
This fifth of seven projected volumes of the journals of Thomas Merton (A Search for Solitude, LJ 5/1/96) covers a turbulent period in American history. At the same time, this was a period of radical change in the Catholic Church owing to the guidance of Pope John XXIII and the reforms that emerged from the Vatican Council. Merton, from the hermitage where he was living, comments on all that he sees going on in the world with astonishing insight and compassion. Throughout, the reader can't help but be greatly impressed with the depth of Merton's knowledge, the intensity of his day-to-day engagement with matters spiritual, temporal, and intellectual, and the urgency of his desire to reconcile all of the varied areas of his passionate involvement with his primary calling to contemplation and the solitary life. The book stands as a further testament to the power of this important thinker and spiritual master and reads well on its own, though most libraries will want to have the complete series. Highly recommended.?Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll., N.Y.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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